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here Harvey still still here
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he's always feels like the first time I her
me me he keeps it interesting and very lucky to
health and he called me up one day I was washing the dishes and I finished
I anything what he do and I said nothing but
that families start and that's how it started X a kinky boots it's a story for
for folks they aren't you haven't seen it yet it's a very young British man who
inherits a struggling shoe factory in England and who threw
through some twists of fate meets a drag queen who gives him a new
design idea and becomes ultimately his business partner Tulsa based on a movie
that came out in 2000
finding what's wonderful is that we we put together this T
that that are all at the top of the game in this
I mean it's a marriage %uh all of us the hardest
think to work with is somebody who doesn't know what they want right you
can't make somebody who doesn't know what they want happy
but she's very specific from day one she watches
I and that in the lab right place out and gonna drive me at the end of that
brought you
but I what that is gonna sit here and it's gonna do this she was a
push this by one point but sadly she knows what she's talking about
it's a pleasure to work with somebody who knows what theyre talking to you
what I said they'll honestly what I said was and this is why I think it could be
at 6 had to be the only body any player will you get up
what he put it sounds around a voice way because we doing records all the time
but we don't just do in weapons when you go to a concert in New Year music he do
when he bought two
it's called the compressor limiter right and you can also with me she make
delayed weaver
which creates a sound around the voice
which gives you articulation I'll think
you can think the voice then all to the music a little
without losing articulation you hear the bottom of the person's voice
you don't want to just yet after the invoice so they cut through
wanna hear the whole Voice and when he the one for the music
if it's inviting and warm like that who wouldn't want to go see
because it doesn't make your skin crawl you know %ah
know he's editor at they applauded take the applause that
your move up herbert
city what was the first song if you remember that you wrote for
kinky boots and talk a little bit about how you tried the get into it your way
into it
well because I didn't know
what the rules were and I kept asking me said they were on a little story about
it I want
a song called the most beautiful thing and the father has to sing
and the first verse first song in the show will
it's the opening number and little
is gonna saying and then the fiance's gonna sing
and then you know everybody so %uh singing
okay and then I started thinking
okay I went back and listened to all my favorite musicals I also took all the
things I like
like my mother always listen to our mining of you know
didn't didn't think tank and then rate was always very dramatic sorry football
the most beautiful thing should have a little rock mining official
so I put and the
define email amenities in these
shooters you know and then he said a half day
which that the shoes Afghanistan's so I was thinking
hot every time we see great p.m. shoes
hot from heaven should come down place if you like shoes
I like cheese mind I am fifty and you know
was a lot of stuff that pulled me to this story you know the Phoenician alone
I love fashion
I love shoes and not a male DeMarco's then
I studied till put it together like that in
unorthodox ways and I think still on my iPhone somewhere
I think get the voice memo love Nichola
had to say and then a nickel and nickel and nickel
does netted fiance if they aren't saying
ha her and I have had no
its you like to which he was there we believe Joe
you to me that says should sound well she wasn't really
ok because in the end the melody that I so I love their
see takes all of this thinking and I don't know how cuz I would probably die
sub out: mixes all of this
up in outcomes a song that's very cohesive
as yeah you voted to that tells the story
in an opening number have each one of these characters to find my shoes
the audience totally gets it they hear
each one of those individual voices as an individual
was and it's wonderful but how it come from that
one Harvey is as the I me you know why
lower remember all was something you love my age and older remember bus to
brand she's
any member look look look in the telephone book for the boy who sells
issue with the bitches boy in the dog in Psych
inside this you will come to life way
so I think you are by well I inside what I find a place for Boise live
advice you have a dog did you I what you doin what
also yeah
on we feel that this you
yeah I know you think I'm crazy that's why don't I don't think that
know it's yeah I
what did you find to be the disorder discover along the way is the diff the
main differences between writing
I for musical theatre and and writing your songs were there any are where
they're actually
not not not so many why don't think it was as rigid
arm in musical theatre as it is in writing albums
and sometimes even though you just
poland the air sometimes the East Iliff to come back even if you think you have
wonderful poetry
with some buddies is year what does that mean he always knew this and it's really
the lyrics aren't so great ways i was thinkin okay cool listen to some great
lyrics and I
listen to Raj's and hammerstein you know like a song like you've gotta be taught
oh you'd listen to West Side Story and know that
the guys that were writing that musical or get a
and day lived a closeted life
and when you hear there's a place for us somewhere
a place for us is the saddest thing because it is like Romeo and Juliet
its lay is the forbidden love
and I just kept listenin to
those kind is inspirations and funny things
and little rock thing I don't know that's why I guess it wasn't bad on
because I don't know what I'm doing I'm just doing yeah
natural I guess if I had to sit and think about it
I would be worried and upset that's what
if if if if the and that's why the second one is always the hardest
I guess go back the next time did you know how did I do that
when it should be started writing early on what sort of things captured your
imagination when you'd write stories
I've always felt that in every song
the is a story and I never felt I could write a book or
be deported anything like that because I never really finished my homework cell
your and I couldn't finish a test so I just felt like
honestly I felt like I was just really stupid
for there was some screw that wasn't there and
because I love that I got to live
a really magical existence
because I didn't think it was worth trying to fit in with people who
you know felt that I was weird anyway so I started to notice other things I
started to look at everything different I started to
imagine what it was like to live in flowers I would listen to the musicals
and
b.com then you know I would it be
I was barbra streisand for a while though she doesn't realize it out well
suspect we worked like
now and and then when I realized that I could be a singer like always wanted as
I was alright major to
and now a term paper happened
self affecting work out for me cell
I then I just joined a band and
one thing led to another but when you write a song
this song has to have a beginning a middle and an end
and when you see me it's a character telling a story
and more times than none every story that I told was about to people that I
grew up watching
weather was my mother and my grandmother or the lady down the block that
dyed her hair would look like Diane Campbell other
lady down the block cool never had a boyfriend was tall skinny and very kind
calling and all the people all the
different kind people as though I was always attracted to the LKS
no cuz i kinda was Lt and I
I think that I was blessed because had I
in accepted and normal I probably wouldn't have learned to listen to music
as intently as they did
and probably would start I just feel before yes in his job game or get a free
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